Post by Logan on Jun 18, 2016 22:15:57 GMT -6
BRISTOL — Re-establishing passenger rail service between Berlin and Waterbury would cost more than $500 million and attract no more than 800 riders a day, state transportation planners reported Thursday.
In the last months of a multi-year, $1.25 million study, the transportation department is saying that passenger service on the tracks that run through New Britain and Bristol isn't financially feasible now or in the short-term future.
Just restoring the privately owned 24-mile rail line to good condition for moderate-speed freight trains will cost more than $100 million, the DOT said.
"The company would certainly have to bear the bulk of that investment. It's not going to come from the state," DOT Planning Director Mark Carlino told a half-dozen listeners at the public library on Thursday night.
Read more: www.courant.com/community/bristol/hc-bristol-train-line-0617-20160617-story.html
In the last months of a multi-year, $1.25 million study, the transportation department is saying that passenger service on the tracks that run through New Britain and Bristol isn't financially feasible now or in the short-term future.
Just restoring the privately owned 24-mile rail line to good condition for moderate-speed freight trains will cost more than $100 million, the DOT said.
"The company would certainly have to bear the bulk of that investment. It's not going to come from the state," DOT Planning Director Mark Carlino told a half-dozen listeners at the public library on Thursday night.
Read more: www.courant.com/community/bristol/hc-bristol-train-line-0617-20160617-story.html
